Minnesota Senate takes HF1082 off the table, refers it to Finance and approves author changes

The Minnesota Senate on May 16, 2026 agreed to take House File 1082 off the table and refer it to the Committee on Finance, approved changes to bill authorship on two Senate files and recessed for party caucuses.

Sen. Murphy moved to take House File 1082 from the table; the motion "prevailed" by voice, and he then moved, "I MOVE THAT HOUSE FILE 1082 BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE." That referral passed by voice vote and sends the file to the Finance Committee for further consideration.

The actions came amid a brief session that began with a call of the Senate and the reading of the roll. The Secretary read the roll and the presiding officer announced that a quorum was present. The presiding officer also announced which senators intended to vote remotely under Rule 40.7: Senators Carlson, Hawj, Kunesh, Hoffman, Johnson Stewart and Rest.

Earlier in the morning, Sen. Maye Quade moved that her name be stricken as chief author and shown as a co-author on Senate File 334 and that Sen. Wiklund be added as chief author. Sen. Gustafson moved to add Sen. Xiong as a co-author on Senate File 4889. The chamber adopted the authors' motions as one motion.

All motions recorded in the transcript were approved by voice vote; the transcript records the presiding officer stating that each motion "prevailed," but it does not include roll-call tallies or recorded individual votes for these items.

Under Rule 26, a motion to recess to the call of the president was made and the Senate recessed for what was announced as about an hour of caucusing; a senator indicated Senate Republicans would caucus immediately after the recess. The transcript ends with the Senate recessed to caucus.

Next procedural steps for bills moved to committee will be determined by the relevant committees; the transcript does not include debate on the substance of House File 1082 or the listed Senate files.